The head of the parliamentary group of the Party of Democratic Progress (PDP) in the National Assembly of Republika Srpska (RS), Igor Crnadak, said today that RS will have four presidents after November 23, accusing the ruling Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) of deliberately creating chaos.
“So, (Milorad) Dodik is the president, he will not resign, so from tomorrow both he and Željka (Cvijanović) are presidents. We already know that (RS Vice President from the Croat people) Davor Pranjić has also been president since before, so, obviously, when the President of the Republic is elected on November 23, RS will have four presidents,” Crnadak wrote on social media.
In his words, it is completely clear that SNSD “is creating total chaos and wants to create complete confusion in which no one knows what is going on anymore.”
A special session of the RS National Assembly will be held tomorrow, at which the current member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Željka Cvijanović, will be appointed as the interim president of the RS, it was agreed at today’s session of the Collegium of the entity parliament. Crnadak emphasized that Cvijanović was proposed as the acting president of the RS by a group of deputies, assessing that this was absurd.
“The Collegium has ended. As in that saying about the crazy and confused. My colleague (Deputy Speaker of the RS National Assembly) Anja Ljubojević says that she does not know on the basis of which article of the Constitution or law the group of deputies is proposing Željka as the acting president,” he stated.
He added that when Ljubojević asked him – who will use the rule of procedure that the President of the Republic can speak as much as he wants and when he wants, he received the answer “that Milorad Dodik will do it, because he is still the president.”
Crnadak announced that tomorrow, at a special session of the RS parliament, he will demand that it be stated precisely whether the president, who will be elected on November 23, will be able to take the oath and assume office in the Palace of the Republic in a normal manner.
“I suspect that they are preparing to violently prevent the takeover of power,” he concluded.
The Central Election Commission of Bosnia and Herzegovina has called early elections for the president of RS for November 23, after on August 6 it revoked the mandate of the then entity president Milorad Dodik based on a final verdict of the Court of BiH, which sentenced him to one year in prison and a six-year ban on holding public office for failing to implement the decision of the High Representative in BiH.
